Panto in an hour, guess what my husband is doing ?

[haretodaygonelater]

Pulling up the patio as the slabs are uneven! I mean yeah it needs done, but today!!

Oh no he isn't!

I would say that he is saving you a job, OP! Can you ask him to dig a nice big hole while he's at it? About 6ft long?

We’d be leaving in 10 minutes, plenty of warning and my db would jump in the shower. Drove me nuts.

It’s avoidance jobs. They agree to keep the house happy then when the time comes comes panic internally and rather than voice this and cause upset they figure by being “helpful” fixing the patio/cleaning the car/tidying the airing cupboard they now have a reason they cannot possibly but that you also won’t be mad because it’s because they are being ever so helpful doing that job you’ve probably mentioned a few times even in passing.

Why do people miss “to be” out of phrases like “it needs done” or “it needs washed”?

”It needs doing” (present tense) makes sense, but not “it needs done”??

I’ve noticed this a lot on here recently.

I hate pantos i would do anything to get out from going or even doing xmas.
Now im an adult i dont do any thank god.
One year i was about 13 i jumped in a lake to try and get a cold so i could me in bed over xmas it didnt work i never got sick.
When i was 26 i went to thailand with my son last minute holiday to avoid all the faffing.
My son is like me and many others he just does not like it.
I dont do any of it now and love it.

I think it’s regional. I know a chap who also skips it his from up north.

It's bothers me when I see this. It's a (relatively) recent development I think. "Needs gone " on adverts too. Argh

I am from Yorkshire and while I do see if here (never heard it, only seems to be written down) its quite a recent thing and mostly on FB adverts or similar
Like using "his" instead of "he's"

He's hoping to give himself an injury that will require hospital treatment and bed rest so he can avoid the panto.

No not just your DH. We moved house in stressful circumstances- DD was a few days old, we had to put everything in storage for a 3 months and then there were issues with moving in dates and delivery of our stuff. On the day we finally moved in my parents were frantically helping me to unpack baby and kitchen essentials while my DH spent a leisurely morning putting together a wooden high chair for a baby who was still several months off either sitting up or eating solids. Apparently it made sense to get rid of the box on that day.

On another occasion I asked him to do a quick vacuum about an hour before visitors arrived and half an hour later discovered he had taken all the sofa cushions off and moved all the furniture-to do a deep clean.

Not so funny for you OP but this thread has made me laugh. I also had a DF similar to PP’s. He discovered on my wedding day a small pane of glass in the front door was cracked. He popped to the hardware shop got the replacement glass pane cut to size, bought putty and replaced the broken pane before we set off for my wedding. I remember him waiting for his football pools coupon to be collected before we could set off to visit my DM in hospital after she had had an operation.

🤣🤣🤣

I was waiting by the door recently because we had forgot something and I needed him to help. Husband started faffing with his thirsty chives plant.

I often find men will do weird things like use a leaf blower in the garden, tidy the shed or arrange cds into order when proper housework is on the go. I'm assuming it's avoidance/look busy type stuff.

Let him get on with it but also tell him it doesn't get him out of the panto either.

He doesn't want to go.
Sad that some adults still cannot make/express their choices.
What is the point of "Panto"?
😕

I am so glad my DH doesn’t have the bloke priorities.

OP I hope you got to the Pantomime and enjoyed it.

@ItsCalledAConversation Martell Maxwell on Homes under the Hammer says it a lot. I presume it's a Scottish thing, I've got to quite like it now.

I'm from Northern Ireland and I don't think we would ever naturally say 'it needs doing'. For me it is always 'it needs done'. I think it makes sense because the thing that's needed is is the completed action, when the task will be 'done'.

DH is exactly the same. We argued on the day before Christmas Eve as he wanted to mow the (vast) lawn when there was a million other things that actually needed to be done ahead of hosting guests the following day.

I think this kind of thing is a product of Man Time. I've noticed over the years that Man Time has only three units:

1. Five minutes;
2. Half an hour;
3. 'Oh, all right then, an hour tops.'

(Except in the case of Tradesman Time, where it goes more like:

1. By the end of today;
2. Friday latest;
3. sucks teeth 'Hard to say, love, we're waiting on a part from Azerbaijan.')

Oh dear. I've only just recovered from the "shit things/nothing for Xmas thread" and now this classic scenario of the "I don't want to do it and I don't care if it spoils my kids' Xmas, so I'll fuck about to avoid it" thread.
I feel like getting a t-shirt made which says "They're not just my kids and unbelievably I'd rather be having a quiet G & T too!"
Perhaps on the back it could have "She's not my mother, so clear away your shit!"

To bury himself in, to avoid going.

Don't blame him.

Mine does things like this too. The day after firstborn DC arrived home, he decided that the mainly glass front porch needed knocking down, leading to lots of noise and visitors having to step over broken glass. Then the day before second DC’s christening ( when we were having a large party as we had recently moved house and it was also older DC’s birthday) he took a saw to a dozen tall conifers and left them lying over the back lawn

Oh, is there a shit presents thread?
I couldn't stop laughing at one last time about the dh who bought his wife a periscope as they'd had a skylight fitted. 😂

I also remember the périscope !! 🤣🤣